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Distributed Robotics Systems - CyberScout (CyberScout)
This project is no longer active.

Head: Pradeep Khosla
Contact: Pradeep Khosla (pkk@ece.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC
Associated lab/group: Advanced Mechatronics Lab

For more information, see this project's homepage.

The Carnegie Mellon CyberScout project, launched in May 1997, is a collaborative team of semi-autonomous all-terrain vehicles designed to conduct wide-area tactical surveillance for military and security tasks. Many CyberScouts can be controlled, and interactively taught to perform their scouting task better, by a single human, monitoring the scouts from a remote location.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Curt Bererton - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Kiran Bhat - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] H. Benjamin Brown - Project Scientist <hbb@cs.cmu.edu>
• Antonio Diaz-Calderon - NREC Commercialization Specialist
• Chris Diehl - PhD Student, ECE
• [Home] John Dolan - Senior Systems Scientist <jmd@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Mario Gomez-Blanco - Masters Student, ECE <mariog+@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Robert Grabowski - PhD Student, ECE
• John B. Hampshire, II - Research Engineer, ECE
• Carol L. Hoover - Consultant, ISRI
• [Home] Wesley Huang - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Soshi Iba - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Pradeep Khosla - Dean and Philip and Marsha Dowd Prof ECE, RI/ECE <pkk@ece.cmu.edu>
• Han Kiliccote - Research Engineer, ICES <kiliccote@cmu.edu>
• Jin-Oh Kim - PhD Student, RI
• James Morrow - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Anne Murray - PhD Student, ECE
• Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment - Project Scientist <lenscmu@cs.cmu.edu>
• Bradley Nelson - PhD Student, RI
• [Home] Chris Paredis - Research Scientist, RI/ICES
• Jesus Salido-Tercero - Visiting Scholar
• Mahesh Saptharishi - PhD Student, ECE
• [Home] Marios Savvides - Research Faculty, CyLab, ECE <marioss@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Debbie Scappatura - Office Staff III, ECE <debbie@ece.cmu.edu>
• Karun Shimoga - Project Scientist
• Alvaro Soto - PhD Student, RI
• Cem Unsal - Postdoctoral Fellow, ICES
• Richard Voyles - PhD Student, RI

• Collaborative Agents - Cooperative robotics
• CyberATV - We have developed two Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) (by retrofitting two Polaris all-terrain vehicles (ATVs)
• CyberRAVE - We are developing a framework to run and simulate multiple mobile robot systems.
• Distributed Surveillance & Sensing - Hierarchical, distributed, and active perception system
• Gyrover - A Single-Wheel, Gyroscopically stabilized Robot
• I-Cubes - "ICES Cubes" are a class of modular self-reconfigurable bipartite robotic systems
• Millibots - Heterogeneous group of small autonomous robots with modular payloads and sensing platforms
• Real and Virtual Environment for Multiple Robots - General-purpose framework to run and simulate multiple mobile robot systems

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Distributed Surveillance and Reconnaissance Using Multiple Autonomous ATVs: CyberScout
  M. Saptharishi, C.S. Oliver, C.P. Diehl, K. Bhat, J. Dolan, A. Trebi-Ollennu, and P. Khosla
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation: Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, Vol. 18, No. 5, October, 2002, pp. 826 - 836. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [351 KB] copyrighted

• Collaborative Surveillance using Both Fixed and Mobile Unattended Sensor Platforms
  D. Chris, S. Mahesh, H. John, and K. Pradeep
  Proceedings of SPIE's 13th Annual International Conference on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls, Vol. 3693, April, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [363 KB], ps.gz [249 KB] copyrighted